Four Spoonbill were again roosting on Finger Point at high tide, with 312 Dark-bellied Brent Geese, 181 Black-tailed Godwit, 50 Sanderling, 28 Ringed Plover, three Eider, two Avocet, two Pintail and a Red-breasted Merganser in the estuary.
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| Grey Plover - James Marshall |
The sunny conditions encouraged two Cetti's Warbler into song, with the Dartford Warbler by the Visitor Centre, four Fieldfare overhead, and a Firecrest in the Entrance Bushes.
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| Dartford Warbler - Alan Keatley |
Elsewhere a pair of Shoveler and a Little Grebe were on the Main Pond, a Grey Wagtail and a Water Rail at the First Pond, and offshore 72 Common Scoter, nine Great Crested Grebe, four Red-throated and two Great Northern Diver.
Other Wildlife: After a crisp frosty morning, it warmed up by midday with at least ten Common Darter active, some paired up and mating. Moving through single Clouded Yellow and Painted Lady, and on the few flowering plants several Common Dronefly Eristalis tenax and Buff-tailed Bumblebee.
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| Common Darter - Alan Keatley |
In the dunes the ground beetles Demetrias atricapillus and Calathus mollis and the arachnids, Bleeding Heart Spider Nigma puella and harvestman Opilio saxatilis.
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| Opilio saxatilis - Alan Keatley |
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| Calathus mollis - Alan Keatley |
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| Demetrias atricapillus - Alan Keatley |
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| Bleeding Heart Spider Nigma puella - Alan Keatley |
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